- I was in a car with someone and their phone was playing various tracks from their MP3 collection. About 15 tracks played, with occasional skips. I said to myself “I wonder if this playlist is on shuffle or is playing the tracks sequentially? How could I tell”
- I knew the shuffle was off because a song had repeated.
- An instance of new song after a repeated one, denotes this. In a linear sequence a repeated song would just be the wrap, the loop. This could occur naturally in a random group, the instance where randomization causes a song to repeat (which could be the start of a loop, or if a unique new song is detected - a sign of randomization.)
- I just liked how that song, existed at the knife’s edge of randomization and order, and the subsequent drop into the next track provided the answer.
- I think.